Grant funders that a Quaker centre for healing, rest and renewal in Lingfield could realistically approach — the Surrey ones first, then the Quaker trusts, then England-wide and national funders, tagged so you can jump to the part of the work you need money for: bursaries, the building, the garden, or simply keeping the lights on.
Start local, then start Quaker. Both blocks are shaded and sit at the top. Between them they are where a charity this size has odds that a national trust will never give it, and these five are worth a conversation before anything else:
The Quaker connection is an asset, and most of it is invisible to funding databases. The purple rows are trusts that fund on the strength of a link to the Religious Society of Friends — Southall, Cadbury, Reckitt, Rest-Harrow. They are small, quiet and almost entirely absent from commercial funding search tools, which index by cause and geography and have nowhere to put "Quaker". Claridge House is a Quaker Recognised Body, so the door is already open in a way it is not for most applicants.
Note also that being Quaker makes several Christian funders reachable — Benefact (which gave Quakers in Britain £200,000), Westhill, Souter, the Surrey Churches Preservation Trust — while making the evangelical ones (which require applicants to actively share the faith) a poor fit; those have been left off. One trap to know: some buildings funders, including the National Churches Trust, require the building to have been constructed as a place of worship, which a converted 1850s house is not — the rows here have been checked against that test.
How the list is ordered. Surrey funders first, then Quaker funders, then everything else, each block by closing date with the soonest at the top. Rounds that have already closed sit below the open ones — most are annual and will come round again — and funds with no fixed date sit at the bottom of their block.
Where this comes from. Public sources only: the funders' own websites, the Charity Commission register and filed accounts, the 360Giving published-grants dataset, and council and community-foundation pages. Every row was re-checked against those sources on 21 September 2026: rounds that have closed for good, funders that have stopped taking applications, and schemes whose rules now exclude Claridge House were taken off, and deadlines, award sizes and links were brought up to date. Eligibility for the landfill money was tested postcode-by-postcode against each operator's checker, and building funds that require a building constructed as a place of worship, which a converted 1850s house is not, were left off.
What is deliberately missing. London-only funds, which are most of what a Hammersmith charity would see and none of which reach RH7. Anything requiring applicants to evangelise. Funds restricted to children and young people, armed forces, homelessness or a named other county. Where a funder's fit was arguable, it was left out.
Always check the funder's own guidance before applying. The notes here are a reading aid, not advice, and deadlines move. Tandridge Voluntary Action offers free fundraising support to local organisations.
| Funder | Run by | Deadline | Max value | Area | Tags | What it funds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Foundation for Surrey – Main Grants Programme | Community Foundation for Surrey (1111600) | 11 Dec 2026 | Discretionary | Surrey / Tandridge | Health & Wellbeing Mental Health Core Costs Bursaries & Hardship Nature & Garden | The Foundation's primary open grant programme supporting voluntary groups and charities across Surrey with social welfare, health, community, and wellbeing projects. Applications start with an Expression of Interest via Plinth; bids of £7,000 or under are typically prioritised.The single most important relationship to build, and it is not a cold one: CF Surrey awarded Claridge House £4,250 in October 2018 for "Rest, renewal, and wellbeing breaks for Carers" (grant 360G-CFSurrey-A476791). Lead with that. It has since paid for the same thing elsewhere — £7,500 to Crossroads Care Surrey in 2025 for wellbeing breaks for unpaid carers — and separately funded solar panels, a garden counselling room and core costs for a Meals on Wheels service in Lingfield and Dormansland. Every Claridge House need maps onto something this funder has already bought. One expression of interest is read against dozens of named funds. And note the framing that worked: funders pay for respite and wellbeing breaks for a named group, not "retreat bursaries" — Claridge House's own successful 2018 application used exactly that language. |
| Tandridge Community Fund | Community Foundation for Surrey (1111600) | 11 Dec 2026 | £3,500 | Surrey / Tandridge | Older People Disability Health & Wellbeing Buildings & Repairs Bursaries & Hardship | An area-based endowment fund managed by the Community Foundation for Surrey supporting community organisations and voluntary groups within Tandridge. Typical grants range from £750 to £3,500 for local facilities, isolated older people, young people, and disability support.Small, but it is the district-level pot and it names both isolated older people and community facilities. Apply through the same expression of interest form as the Main Grants Programme. |
| London Gatwick Community Fund | London Gatwick (administered by Community Foundation for Surrey, 1111600) | 11 Dec 2026 | £10,000 | Surrey / Tandridge | Health & Wellbeing Core Costs Capital & Equipment | Corporate fund provided by London Gatwick and managed in Surrey by Community Foundation for Surrey, offering grants up to £10,000 (average £5,000) for community wellbeing, social isolation, and local causes in Tandridge, Reigate & Banstead, and Mole Valley.Worth knowing this changed hands in 2026 — anything you read about the Gatwick Airport Community Trust is out of date and that charity is being wound up. Lingfield sits in Tandridge, which is one of the three named Surrey districts, so eligibility is not in question. Apply through CF Surrey's expression of interest form, not through the airport — the Surrey slice is administered there, at up to £10,000 with most awards around £5,000. The priorities are people-focused, so frame around wellbeing, isolation and access rather than bricks and mortar. |
| SES Water Better Futures Fund | SES Water (Pennon Group), via ActionFunder | 31 Dec 2026 | £7,000 | Surrey / Tandridge | Nature & Garden Health & Wellbeing Energy & Sustainability | Grants of £1,000 to £7,000 administered through ActionFunder for charities and community organisations within the SES Water supply area. Supports initiatives focused on nature and the environment, education, community wellbeing, and supporting vulnerable groups.SES Water is the clean water supplier here and names RH7 itself as inside its network, so eligibility is settled. Lead with the garden and grounds — there is no capital-works or insulation category, so building fabric is a stretch and an environment or grounds project is the strong angle. |
| Tandridge Together Community Fund | Tandridge District Council | closed for now Annual round — 2025/26 closed November 2025; 2026/27 round expected autumn 2026 | £2,000 | Surrey / Tandridge | Health & Wellbeing Mental Health Carers Older People Bursaries & Hardship | Annual grants of up to £2,000 funded by the local lottery for community groups and voluntary organisations that improve the health and wellbeing of Tandridge residents. Applications traditionally open in autumn and are decided in January.Its stated objectives — improving emotional and physical health, reducing social isolation, supporting carers — are Claridge House's charitable objects in council language. The catch is that it funds benefit to Tandridge residents, so build the case around bursary places for local people rather than around the retreat programme as a whole. Tandridge District Council is abolished on 1 April 2027, so treat the current scheme as having a finite life. |
| Community Foundation for Surrey – Creative Wellbeing Programme | Community Foundation for Surrey (1111600), with Surrey Cultural Partnership | closed for now 2026 round closed (EOIs closed 2 July 2026, full applications closed 1 September 2026); future rounds TBA | Discretionary | Surrey / Tandridge | Arts, Craft & Creativity Health & Wellbeing Mental Health | A joint programme with Surrey Cultural Partnership supporting arts, music, and cultural activity that improves health and wellbeing and reaches underserved communities across Surrey. Applications are submitted via the Foundation's Expression of Interest portal.Arts used for wellbeing, in Surrey, is the creativity and healing course programme described back to itself. Of everything on this page, this is the closest fit to what Claridge House already does rather than to what it might do. |
| Tandridge District Council CIL bidding round | Tandridge District Council | closed for now 2026 round closed in June 2026; next annual round expected early 2027 | Discretionary | Surrey / Tandridge | Buildings & Repairs Capital & Equipment Accessibility Energy & Sustainability | Annual bidding round allocating Tandridge's strategic Community Infrastructure Levy funds to infrastructure and community facility projects across the district. Grants vary widely (frequently £25,000 to £500,000+) following a two-stage expression of interest and full application process.Real capital money and charities can win it directly — Outwood Cricket Club bid and was funded, so this is not a parish-councils-only pot. Two actions: register early interest at CILbid@tandridge.gov.uk and confirm charity eligibility, and separately approach Dormansland Parish Council, which receives the 15% neighbourhood share of CIL raised in the parish and recorded an intention in September 2025 to submit its own bid. |
| Your Station, Your Community Improvement Fund | Govia Thameslink Railway (Southern) | closed for now Closed — 2026/27 round ran Oct–Dec 2025; next round expected Oct–Dec 2026 | £10,000 | Surrey / Tandridge | Mental Health Health & Wellbeing Accessibility | Offers grants to charities and community groups delivering social value around stations managed by Govia Thameslink Railway. Bids up to £10,000 are accepted on open application (and up to £50,000 by prior discussion) for projects addressing mental health, inclusion or the environment.Geographic eligibility is already settled: both Dormans and Lingfield are GTR-managed stations on the ORR's current licence schedule and Claridge House is about a mile from Dormans. The thematic gate is the hard part — basic building repair will not compete, so the credible bid is the mental-health theme framed as a service for rail passengers and staff. Diarise October 2026. |
| Haxted Mead Solar Farm Community Benefit and Education Fund | Belltown Power | closed for now Not yet live — register interest at haxtedmead@belltownpower.com | Discretionary | Surrey / Tandridge | Energy & Sustainability Buildings & Repairs Nature & Garden Capital & Equipment | A proposed £920,000 community benefit and education fund over 40 years linked to a planned 50MW solar farm on Haxted Road near Lingfield. Aims to support local sustainability and community projects, including rooftop solar on community buildings and conservation.Contingent — Tandridge planning application 2025/644 was submitted in June 2025 and is still undetermined, so do not budget for it. But the developer explicitly says it is "keen to understand and explore potential initiatives of interest", and registering before consent is how local organisations get written into a fund's design. One email, and the site is effectively next door. |
| The Revive Community Fund | SUEZ recycling and recovery UK / Surrey County Council | closed for now Two funding rounds are typically held each year; managed via ActionFunder. | Up to £4,000 | Surrey / Tandridge | Capital & Equipment Nature & Garden Health & Wellbeing Energy & Sustainability | A joint initiative between SUEZ and Surrey County Council that reinvests profits from Surrey’s 'Revive' re-use shops into local projects. Funding supports initiatives enhancing community life, health and wellbeing, or environmental improvement within Surrey.Since Claridge House is in Surrey and focuses on health and wellbeing, this is a great local fund for smaller capital improvements, garden/nature projects, or minor energy efficiency upgrades. Keep an eye on ActionFunder for the next round opening. |
| Your Councillor Community Fund | Surrey County Council | Rolling throughout the financial year — approach your county councillor | £10,000 | Surrey / Tandridge | Core Costs Capital & Equipment Health & Wellbeing | An annual allocation of £10,000 per Surrey county councillor to fund local community activities, equipment, and neighbourhood improvements. Applications are submitted via the local councillor and reviewed on a rolling basis.Tiny sums, no competition and the same councillor conversation that unlocks Your Fund Surrey. Cheap to ask for and useful as match funding on a bigger bid. Note Surrey County Council is abolished on 1 April 2027 — the scheme's current form ends with it. |
| Community Foundation for Surrey – Crisis Funding | Community Foundation for Surrey (charity 1111600) | Rolling, no deadline | Discretionary | Surrey / Tandridge | Unrestricted Core Costs | Emergency bridge funding for Surrey charitable organisations facing urgent cash-flow issues, requiring a clear plan for future financial sustainability. Grants are discretionary with rapid, rolling assessment.Listed because the 2024/25 accounts show £235,512 in and £281,763 out. This is not the fund to build a strategy on, but it exists, it has no deadline, and it is better to know about it before it is needed than during. |
| Community Foundation for Surrey – Area Funds | Community Foundation for Surrey (charity 1111600) | Rolling — email the grants team | £2,500 | Surrey / Tandridge | Core Costs Health & Wellbeing | Locality pots providing small grants of up to £2,500 for community projects in specific Surrey districts and parishes. Organisations enquire by emailing grants@cfsurrey.org.uk with their location to identify relevant funds.Worth one email to find out what sits over RH7 specifically. Local donor funds rarely advertise and are far less competitive than anything national on this page. |
| Lingfield United Trust – Community Benefit Grant for an Organisation | Lingfield United Trust (charity 1150971) | Rolling — download the organisation form and contact the Clerk to the Trustees | Discretionary | Surrey / Tandridge | Bursaries & Hardship Health & Wellbeing Older People Core Costs | Local parochial trust offering modest Community Benefit Grants for organisations serving residents in Lingfield, Dormansland, and Baldwins Hill. Applications are considered throughout the year on a rolling basis.Its own grants page states that "the area covered is defined by the parishes of Lingfield, Dormansland and Baldwins Hill" — Dormansland named outright, and the Trust is registered a mile away at Plough Road, Dormansland. Small money, but a Dormansland-parish award is the local social proof to cite in the Biffa Award, CIL and Gatwick applications, and the Trust appears in no commercial funding database. |
| Wallace Bell Charitable Trust | Wallace Bell Charitable Trust (charity 1018777) | Rolling — no formal deadlines; apply by written letter to the Chair | £1,500 | Surrey / Tandridge | Mental Health Disability Older People Bursaries & Hardship Health & Wellbeing | Horley-based grant-maker supporting elderly people, disabled individuals, and children in need across Surrey and beyond. Provides modest grants to both organisations and individuals, typically around £1,500.The only trust in the local accounts review that says in its own words it takes cold approaches — "the Trust, once again, received an unparalleled number of requests from various organisations and individuals". Its 2025 list includes Climbing Out, an outdoor confidence-and-recovery programme for people rebuilding after trauma or illness, which is structurally the same proposition as a subsidised restorative retreat. There is no narrative trustees' report, so send a short warm letter to the Chair, not a formal proposal. |
| Surrey Churches Preservation Trust | Surrey Churches Preservation Trust (charity 1063656) | Trustees meet twice yearly in March/April and September to consider applications | £5,000 | Surrey / Tandridge | Buildings & Repairs Capital & Equipment Quaker & Faith Accessibility | Provides grants of £500 to £5,000 for the repair, preservation, and conservation of Christian churches, chapels, and churchyards of all denominations across Surrey. Funding supports structural repairs, roofing, stonework, and heating installations.This is the one buildings funder Claridge House is not disqualified from, because its objects cover "Christian Churches and Churchyards (all denominations)" with no requirement that the building was originally built as a place of worship — the test that rules out the National Churches Trust, the Pilgrim Trust and Historic England. Check one thing before applying: the Trust indicates that churches must take part in the Ride and Stride event to be considered. |
| The Loseley Christian Trust | The Loseley Christian Trust (charity 287715) | No published process — written approach to the Loseley Park Estate Office | Discretionary | Surrey / Tandridge | Health & Wellbeing Quaker & Faith Buildings & Repairs Core Costs | A Surrey-based grant-making trust supporting Christian healing and healthcare, Christian worship facilities, and general charitable purposes across England and Wales. Awards discretionary grants, distributing around £100,000 annually.Its first registered object is "the promotion of Christian healing & the support of those providing such healing", and its second covers buildings used for Christian worship. That is the closest verbal match to Claridge House found anywhere in this research. No application process is published, so this is a well-argued letter to the Estate Office at Loseley Park, Guildford GU3 1HS. |
| East Grinstead and District Lions Club CIO | East Grinstead and District Lions Club CIO (charity 1179721) | Rolling — Community Services Committee meets monthly, decision within three months | £500 | Surrey / Tandridge | Bursaries & Hardship Health & Wellbeing Accessibility Energy & Sustainability | Local Lions Club providing modest financial support and grants to local charities, community groups, and individuals in need around East Grinstead and surrounding areas. Fast-track grants are capped at £500, with larger awards reviewed monthly.The only local funder with a written, open, dated application process: assessment by the Community Services Committee, a monthly meeting, and a commitment to "write to all applicants informing them of the outcome of their application for funding within three months". East Grinstead is four miles away and the club's own independent examiner is based in Lingfield. Apply on paper for one costed thing — a set of bursary places, or a single accessibility or insulation item — and expect hundreds rather than thousands. |
| E F and M G Hall Charitable Trust | E F and M G Hall Charitable Trust (charity 256453) | No published round — letter to trustees, ideally after an introduction | £5,000 | Surrey / Tandridge | Health & Wellbeing Core Costs Bursaries & Hardship Older People | Family trust based near East Grinstead making discretionary grants to charities locally in Surrey and Kent and across the UK, focusing on healthcare, hospices, disability, and elder care. Awards typically range from £250 to £5,000.£144,040 given away in one year from Shovelstrode House, Hammerwood, four miles from Dormansland, and its largest single gift of the year was £5,100 to St Catherine's Hospice — health and care are plainly within its taste. The one obstacle is the sentence that grants go to "charitable organisations in which they have an interest", so a cold proposal will likely be ignored: aim for a personal introduction to one of the four Hall family trustees, or a short letter that establishes the local connection before it asks. |
| Dormansland Parish Council – Grants and Donations | Dormansland Parish Council | Rolling — request form from parishclerk@dormansland.org.uk, decided at Full Council | £1,000 | Surrey / Tandridge | Capital & Equipment Buildings & Repairs Nature & Garden Accessibility | Provides small grants up to £1,000 and donations up to £300 to local non-profit organisations for projects benefiting Dormansland parish residents. Funds capital works such as building repairs, premises improvements, equipment purchases, and community events.Claridge House is physically inside the parish, which is the whole eligibility test. Pre-empt the two exclusions that could catch you: the policy rules out "major charities" and bodies "provided for by other authorities", so present one small specific local capital need rather than a general appeal, and be ready to evidence that other funding has been sought. No retrospective funding, and a six-month completion report with photographs is required. |
| Rotary Club of Titsey & District CIO | Rotary Club of Titsey & District CIO (charity 1205558) | Rolling — approach by letter to the treasurer or invitation to speak | £1,000 | Surrey / Tandridge | Mental Health Bursaries & Hardship Older People Accessibility | Provides small grants and practical support to local community organisations, youth, elderly and disability initiatives in Oxted and surrounding areas. Awards typically range between £250 and £1,000 from annual charitable distributions of approximately £24,000.The strongest cause match in the local accounts review: £1,710 to Clockwork for young people's counselling, £1,026 to Hurst Green Community Centre, £1,000 to an accessibility project and £780 to Men in Sheds — mental health, community buildings and older people's isolation, all already funded. Its reserves policy says funds are "distributed as soon as possible", so pitch a named number of bursary places at £250 to £1,000, not core costs. |
| Horley Lions Club CIO | Horley Lions Club CIO (charity 1179840) | Rolling — approach through a member or contact club via welfare email | £5,000 | Surrey / Tandridge | Mental Health Health & Wellbeing Bursaries & Hardship Older People | Provides charitable grants and welfare assistance to local organisations, schools and individuals in need across Horley and surrounding districts. Typical donations to charities range from £500 to £5,000 alongside individual hardship grants and winter fuel support.No cause bar at all — the object is "to apply its income for any purpose that is charitable" — and the precedent is right: £1,500 to the Lucy Rayner Foundation for young-adult mental health, alongside a hospice and Young Epilepsy. Two caveats: Claridge House is ten miles out of a stated "local area" that means Horley, and cases arrive by referral rather than open bidding, so lead with Horley-resident beneficiaries and go in through a member. |
| Discretionary Charitable Rate Relief | Tandridge District Council | Rolling — apply through a MyTandridge account | Discretionary | Surrey / Tandridge | Core Costs Unrestricted | Provides up to 20% discretionary top-up rate relief for qualifying charities occupying premises wholly or mainly for charitable purposes in Tandridge, supplementing the statutory 80% mandatory relief. Applications are assessed under the council's discretionary relief policy.Not a grant, but recurring unrestricted money and a five-minute check: pull the current rates bill and see whether only the automatic 80% is showing. If it is, the top-up 20% is being left unclaimed every single year. |
| London Gatwick Noise Insulation Scheme | London Gatwick Airport Ltd | Rolling — email noiseinsulationscheme@gatwickairport.com to check boundary eligibility | £4,300 | Surrey / Tandridge | Buildings & Repairs Energy & Sustainability Accessibility | Contributes up to £4,300 plus VAT towards acoustic double glazing or secondary glazing for windows and external doors of eligible properties in designated noise contours around Gatwick. Funding applies to residential living space across parts of Surrey, Sussex and Kent.Unconfirmed but worth one email. The boundary is the 60dBA contour extended 15km east and west along the arrivals centreline; Claridge House is about 13.2km due east of the airport and roughly 1.5km south of the extended centreline, so geometrically inside that extension, and the airport says the boundary deliberately takes in whole roads and villages. Ask two questions in the same email: is RH7 6QH inside the current boundary, and does a charity-run residential retreat centre count as eligible living space. Rooms serving a commercial purpose are excluded, which is the crux. |
| St Silvan's Area Charity | St Silvan's Area Charity (charity 1085009) | Rolling — apply by form or referral; email hello@stsilvans.org.uk or call 07570 117279 | Discretionary | Surrey / Tandridge | Health & Wellbeing Disability Bursaries & Hardship | Provides financial assistance and grants for essential items, white goods, disability equipment and respite care to individuals and families in financial hardship or sickness. Operates across a 10-mile radius from Staffhurst Wood, covering Lingfield, Oxted, Godstone, Caterham and Edenbridge.Three miles away, in the same postcode district, registered for exactly the causes Claridge House works in, and completely absent from most funding databases. It now operates an active website (stsilvans.org.uk) and funds individuals in hardship or sickness (including respite care) rather than organisations directly. Claridge House cannot apply for core costs, but can support eligible local guests to apply for bursary/respite assistance. |
| Link Porter Trust | Oxted and District 'LINK' Association (charity 266988) | Rolling — individual applications via trust secretary (07913 741452) | £345 | Surrey / Tandridge | Bursaries & Hardship Health & Wellbeing | Provides small, one-off grants to individuals facing short-term financial hardship or crisis residing in the RH8 (Oxted) postcode area. Grants typically average around £345 to help purchase essential household equipment, school uniforms or cover emergency bills.Claridge House cannot apply, but it can use this: £345 is close to the cost of a bursary-supported retreat place, so when a guest or referral lives in Oxted, Hurst Green or Limpsfield, help them apply — or apply on their behalf — rather than absorbing the cost into the bursary fund. Caveat: the only accounts on the register are for 2022 and describe a charity still rebuilding after the pandemic, so confirm it is active before relying on it. |
| Community Support | Rotary Club of East Grinstead Meridian | Rolling requests; occasionally puts out specific calls for submissions. | Discretionary | Surrey / Tandridge | Health & Wellbeing Older People Capital & Equipment | A local Rotary club that distributes funds raised from community events to support local charities, specific appeals, and community projects in East Grinstead and surrounding villages.No formal online grants programme or published application process was found for this club (its old site redirects to a legacy Rotary-RIBI page); approach is likely via direct relationship/letter to the club rather than an online form. Treat as a speculative, low-effort local ask, not a scheduled grant round. |
| William A Cadbury Charitable Trust | William A Cadbury Charitable Trust (charity 213629) | 28 Sep 2026 7d | £20,000 | Quaker | Quaker & Faith Core Costs Buildings & Repairs Capital & Equipment | Quaker family trust supporting UK projects with a clear connection to the Religious Society of Friends, alongside West Midlands community initiatives. Trustees award large grants averaging £20,000 twice yearly (May and November) and small grants of up to £2,000 monthly.The largest sums on this page that are reachable on the strength of the Quaker connection alone. Two routes: the monthly small grants are quick and low-effort, the November trustees' meeting is where the real money is. |
| W F Southall Trust | The Southall Trust (charity 218371) | closed for now Round 2 closed 11/09/2026; Round 3 opens mid-November 2026 | £5,000 | Quaker | Quaker & Faith Core Costs Energy & Sustainability | Quaker family trust providing capital and core revenue grants typically between £1,000 and £5,000 to UK registered charities. Supported categories include Quaker Work and Witness, Peace and Reconciliation, Environmental Action, and Social Action.Quaker Work and Witness is a named category and Claridge House is a Quaker Recognised Body, so the door is already open. Revenue as well as capital, which matters more than the grant size. Round 2 of 2026 closed 11 September; Round 3 opens mid-November 2026. |
| Edith M Ellis 1985 Charitable Trust | The Edith Maud Ellis 1985 Charitable Trust (charity 292835) | closed for now Closed to applications — new policy expected 2027 | Discretionary | Quaker | Quaker & Faith | Quaker grantmaking trust that funds UK charities working on peace, justice, equality, integrity, and sustainability. Applications are currently closed while trustees undertake a policy review, with a new scheme launching in 2027.Listed so you do not waste an afternoon on it: applications are not currently accepted and the grant-making policy is under review, with a new one expected in 2027. Claridge House would be inside the turnover ceiling when it reopens, so it is worth a diary note rather than a letter. |
| C B and H H Taylor 1984 Trust – Religious Society of Friends programme | C B and H H Taylor 1984 Trust (charity 291363) | closed for now Autumn 2026 round closed 16 September 2026; Spring 2027 round opens by January 2027 (deadline March/April 2027) | £2,000 | Quaker | Quaker & Faith Mental Health Bursaries & Hardship Buildings & Repairs | Supports projects connected to the work and concerns of the Religious Society of Friends or backed by Quaker Meetings across Britain. Grants for general programmes typically range from £500 to £2,000, though Quaker awards have historically been larger.The best national Quaker-preference funder found. Its own guidelines say projects "with a defined link to Quaker work or supported by Quaker Meetings in Britain will be considered regardless of location", and Claridge House is both a Local Meeting of West Weald Area Meeting and a Quaker Recognised Body. Two hard rules: applications go through the website only — they will not read emailed appeals — and trustees are unlikely to fund general running costs, so pitch a defined project. The autumn round closed on 16 September 2026; the spring 2027 round opens by January 2027. |
| Britain Yearly Meeting – Faith in Action Grants | Britain Yearly Meeting (charity 1127633) | closed for now Main round closed end of July 2026, reopens May 2027; ad hoc grants up to £500 considered year-round | £2,000 | Quaker | Quaker & Faith Carers Mental Health Bursaries & Hardship | Provides grants of £200 to £2,000 for Quaker-related activities and events that contribute to positive social change. Funding cannot be used for multi-year projects or staffing costs.Distinct from the BYM meeting-house grants already on this page, and open to a Quaker Recognised Body in its own right. Use it for one discrete piece of outward-facing programme work — subsidised retreat places for carers, activists or asylum-support workers — not for the building or core costs, and be realistic that £2,000 is the ceiling. |
| Quakers in Britain – grants for Quaker meetings | Britain Yearly Meeting (charity 1127633) | Rolling | £15,000 | Quaker | Buildings & Repairs Quaker & Faith Accessibility Energy & Sustainability | Provides property improvement grants up to £15,000 (and loans up to £40,000 combined) via the Meeting Houses Funds, plus feasibility grants up to £5,000 via the Sawell Family Fund. Supports repairs, alterations, and development work on Quaker meeting houses.Scoped to meeting houses rather than to the whole site, so this is about the Meeting House at Claridge House specifically. One thing is already settled: offers go to "the body that is the beneficial owner or managing trustee", and since Claridge House owns and manages its own site, Claridge House is the correct applicant rather than West Weald Area Meeting — with supporting minutes from the Area Meeting and the local meeting. See also the Sawell Family Fund, which pays for the survey or feasibility study first and does not prejudice a later application here. |
| Quaker Mental Health Fund (UK) – Project Grants | Quaker Mental Health Fund (UK), formerly The Retreat York Benevolent Fund (charity 1115135) | Rolling — applications currently accepted for 2027 funding allocation (reviewed regularly) | £10,000 | Quaker | Mental Health Quaker & Faith Bursaries & Hardship Carers | Provides funding for Quaker-led projects promoting mental health and wellbeing in line with Quaker values. Grants offer up to £10,000 per year for up to three years, alongside individual therapy grants of up to £1,000.This is the live grant-making descendant of The Retreat in York — founded in 1919 to pay for Friends' treatment there and renamed in December 2020. Its projects must be "led by Quakers" and "promote activities that are in line with Quaker values" but do not have to benefit Quakers, and it has already funded a project so it could offer free places, which is a bursary fund by another name. Worth asking them directly whether a therapeutic retreat week counts under the individual stream, since those grants are paid to a named BACP or UKCP-registered practitioner. |
| The George Cadbury Trust (Edward Cadbury Section) – Fund 'A' | The George Cadbury Trust, Fund 'A' Account (charity 1040998) | No website or application form — written approach to 2 Snow Hill, Birmingham B4 6GA | Discretionary | Quaker | Quaker & Faith Bursaries & Hardship Buildings & Repairs Core Costs | Makes discretionary grants to Quaker charities, organisations, and Society of Friends activities across the UK. Annual charitable expenditure is approximately £238,000 with no preset maximum grant amount.The one Cadbury trust that is still genuinely Quaker in policy rather than just in origin, and the restriction works in Claridge House's favour — as a Quaker Recognised Body it is inside the objects while most applicants are not, and the Midlands limit that rules Surrey out of the other Cadbury trusts does not apply here. Write to 2 Snow Hill: the same address and the same five-person trustee board also serve Fund 'B' (1040999), which distributes £437,404 a year on unrestricted objects, so one letter can reasonably be pitched to both. |
| Sawell Family Fund | Britain Yearly Meeting (restricted fund within charity 1127633) | Rolling, no deadline — decisions normally within two weeks | £5,000 | Quaker | Buildings & Repairs Quaker & Faith Accessibility Capital & Equipment | Provides small grants to Quaker meetings during the development and feasibility phase of property improvements. Awards provide up to £5,000 per grant (up to three grants totaling £15,000 over five years) for professional fees such as architects, planners, and community engagement.Distinct from, and additive to, the BYM Meeting Houses Funds already on this page — a Sawell grant does not prejudice a later application to those. It is the cheapest way to get a professional condition survey or feasibility study paid for before the main capital ask, and decisions come back in about two weeks. It needs a supporting letter from the West Weald Area Meeting clerk, and the scope is the Meeting House and shared fabric, not the guest accommodation. |
| Friends Trusts Limited | Friends Trusts Limited (charity 237698) | Not an application route — one email to friendstrusts@quaker.org.uk | Discretionary | Quaker | Quaker & Faith Bursaries & Hardship Buildings & Repairs | Acts as the denominational trust corporation for Quakers in Britain, managing property, legacies, and various small trusts in accordance with original donor instructions. Disburses discretionary funds from managed trusts totaling over £140,000 annually.Not a funder to apply to, and the highest-upside twenty minutes on this page. Email friendstrusts@quaker.org.uk asking which trusts under its management have objects covering a Quaker centre for healing and rest, bursaries for Friends in need of rest, or Quaker property repair. Given the age of Quaker legacies, some almost certainly do — and Claridge House's original purpose as the Friends Fellowship of Healing's centre is exactly that language. |
| London Quaker Service Trust | London Quaker Service Trust (charity 1042735) | Grants largely settled at the start of the financial year — write early | £25,000 | Quaker | Bursaries & Hardship Quaker & Faith Health & Wellbeing Mental Health | Supports organisations and activities run by or sympathetic to Quakers that benefit disadvantaged people needing educational and recreational facilities. Grants usually range from £2,000 to £5,000, with occasional major grants up to £25,000.Those objects describe a bursary fund almost word for word — subsidised access to recreational and educational facilities for people who cannot otherwise afford them, delivered by a Quaker body — and the grant sizes are the largest of any small Quaker trust found. The obstacle is that the area of benefit is the London Region Area Meetings, so frame the ask around Londoners referred by London Quaker meetings taking bursaried places. Note it shares a registered address with the Friends Fellowship of Healing, Claridge House's founding body, so the networks already overlap. |
| The Westward Trust | The Westward Trust, formerly the D J and J Ironside Charitable Trust (charity 260488) | No website or form — speculative letter to 12 Green Meadow Road, Birmingham B29 4DE | Discretionary | Quaker | Quaker & Faith Core Costs Health & Wellbeing | Supports charitable causes with a strong priority for Quaker charities and projects involving members or attenders of the Religious Society of Friends. Awards discretionary grants, distributing around £20,000 annually across the UK.That stated priority — Quaker charities and projects in which Friends and attenders have substantial involvement and responsibility — describes Claridge House almost exactly, and there is no geographic restriction. Small pot and no published process, so this is one well-targeted letter rather than a proposal. |
| The Roger and Sarah Bancroft Clark Charitable Trust | The Roger and Sarah Bancroft Clark Charitable Trust (charity 211513) | Written application any time — trustees meet four times a year | £1,500 | Quaker | Quaker & Faith Core Costs Bursaries & Hardship | Provides modest grants to registered charities working in Quaker causes, heritage, social relief, and postgraduate education. Awards are typically £500 or less on the trust's website (up to £1,500 noted by local council listings), with a preference for the South West that is not exclusive.The clearest active Quaker preference in the Clark family cluster, with an open door and no deadline, and the trust states its South West preference is not exclusive. Two things to weigh: the practical ceiling is about £1,500 (with website citing £500 or less), and its 2024 expenditure spike reflected the incorporation of the Hilda & Alice Clark Charitable Trust rather than a wind-down. |
| The Henry and Christine Armitage Burtt Trust | The Henry and Christine Armitage Burtt Trust (charity 326126) | No published deadlines — apply in writing to 8 St Andrews Crescent, Leasingham, Sleaford NG34 8LS | Discretionary | Quaker | Quaker & Faith Mental Health Health & Wellbeing | A small Quaker grant-making trust supporting The Retreat in York, grants to meetings of the Religious Society of Friends for appointing resident wardens, and travel in the ministry. Annual charitable expenditure is around £22,000.A second and genuinely obscure survival of the Retreat York and Tuke mental-health lineage that still makes grants. Its second stated purpose is grants to meetings of the Religious Society of Friends, and Claridge House is a Local Meeting of West Weald Area Meeting, so it qualifies on the face of the objects. It appears in no commercial funding database under any relevant category — a short letter is the whole cost of finding out. |
| Souter Charitable Trust Grants | Souter Charitable Trust (SC029998) | 23 Sep 2026 2d | Discretionary | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Quaker & Faith | Grants to UK registered charities for projects relieving human suffering, particularly those with a Christian ethos. There is no set maximum, but typical awards range from £1,000 to £3,000; capital building or renovation projects are not funded.Relief of human suffering, with a Christian ethos preferred rather than required. |
| The St Lazarus Charitable Trust Grants | The St Lazarus Charitable Trust (286918) | 30 Sep 2026 9d | Discretionary | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Quaker & Faith Disability | Provides discretionary grants to institutions and organisations supporting the relief of poverty, sickness, and disability, as well as advancing the Christian faith, with a special emphasis on leprosy relief and medical care. Applications must be made using the Trust's pro-forma, considered once a year in the autumn. |
| Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust | Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust (260869) | 30 Sep 2026 9d | £2,500 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Awards discretionary grants typically ranging from £500 to £2,500 to UK registered charities across a wide spectrum of charitable causes. Trustees meet quarterly, giving favourable consideration to Scottish charities without excluding those in the rest of the UK. |
| The Fat Beehive Foundation | The Fat Beehive Foundation (1185586) | 30 Sep 2026 9d | £2,500 | UK-wide | Digital & IT | Provides grants of up to £2,500 for small UK registered charities with an annual turnover under £1 million to build or improve websites and digital products. Applications are reviewed twice yearly in April and October.Websites for small charities. Claridge House sells its courses online, so the site is income infrastructure, not marketing. |
| The Happiness Fund | Laughology (Laughology Limited, company 05993649) | 2 Oct 2026 11d | £5,000 | UK-wide | Mental Health Health & Wellbeing Bursaries & Hardship | Awards a fixed grant of £5,000 to grassroots UK not-for-profit projects that foster community happiness, wellbeing, and resilience. Funding must be spent entirely on tangible materials and equipment, with rent, venue hire, staff wages, instructor fees, and travel costs strictly excluded. |
| D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust | The D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust (1112457) | 2 Oct 2026 11d | £8,000 | UK-wide | Arts, Craft & Creativity Health & Wellbeing Mental Health | Provides grants of £500 to £8,000 to UK-registered charities for work in the performing arts, creative health interventions, and heritage crafts. Unrestricted funding is available to organisations with an annual income under £250,000.Names "creative health interventions" as one of three funding areas, which is the creativity and healing programme. |
| Hospital Saturday Fund | The Hospital Saturday Fund (1123381) | 8 Oct 2026 17d | £10,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Core Costs | Provides grants to registered health and medical charities for projects, equipment, or running costs. Standard grants offer up to £2,000 (including running costs) and large grants offer up to £10,000 for specific projects or equipment.Will fund running costs of medically related charities, which the "advance physical and mental health" object supports. |
| Green Community Grants Programme | The Wildlife Trusts (207238) | 21 Oct 2026 30d | £25,000 | UK-wide | Nature & Garden | Provides flexible one-year grants of up to £25,000 (maximum 25% of annual income) to not-for-profit organisations for community-led projects that restore nature or improve access to green spaces. |
| CLICK Arts Foundation Grants | CLICK Arts Foundation (1203549) | 31 Oct 2026 | £2,000 | UK-wide | Arts, Craft & Creativity Health & Wellbeing Mental Health | Provides small grants between £100 and £2,000 for community-focused arts and performance projects that advance wellbeing, self-confidence, and social inclusion. Funding is intended for materials, equipment, and accessibility costs for self-contained projects, excluding staff salaries and overheads. |
| Barchester Healthcare Foundation | Barchester's Charitable Foundation (1083272) | 31 Oct 2026 | £2,600 | UK-wide | Older People Mental Health Disability Bursaries & Hardship | Provides grants between £100 and £2,600 to small community groups and local charities for activity projects, equipment, transport, and outings that connect older people or adults with disabilities. Excludes core running costs, salaries, building repairs, and organisations with financial reserves exceeding £200,000. |
| Giving Machine - Community Grants | TheGivingMachine (1159320) | 31 Oct 2026 | £250 | UK-wide | Unrestricted | Awards unrestricted micro-grants of £250 to UK-based not-for-profit organisations and registered charities with annual turnover under £1 million. Eight grants are distributed quarterly via a simple 10-minute online application form. |
| WCIT Charity Grants | The WCIT Charity (1113488) | 3 Nov 2026 | £15,000 | UK-wide | Digital & IT | Grants of up to £15,000 for UK registered charities for innovative technology projects focusing on digital inclusion, education, tech for charities, or public understanding of technology. Requires projects to be innovative rather than routine equipment or website purchases. |
| Screwfix Foundation | The Screwfix Foundation (1151375) | 10 Nov 2026 | £5,000 | UK-wide | Buildings & Repairs Capital & Equipment | Offers grants of up to £5,000 to registered charities and not-for-profit organisations for projects repairing, maintaining, or improving buildings and community facilities used by people in need. Reviews occur quarterly in March, June, September, and December.Repairs to buildings and facilities used by people in need. The practical fabric fund on this page. |
| B&Q Foundation – Home Improvement Grants | B&Q Foundation (charity 1183275) | 13 Nov 2026 | £10,000 | UK-wide | Buildings & Repairs Capital & Equipment Accessibility | Provides grants of up to £10,000 for UK registered charities to improve residential accommodation, housing facilities, or attached gardens for vulnerable people. Applications are processed through the Neighbourly platform in quarterly windows.Straightforward money for the fabric work the house needs, with no geographic test to argue about. Pair it with Wickes' materials-in-kind programme, which covers the same job from the other side, so a single repair project can draw on both. |
| Wise Music Foundation Grants | Wise Music Foundation (1014942) | 30 Nov 2026 | £5,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs Arts, Craft & Creativity | Offers grants between £500 and £5,000 (average £1,500) to smaller UK charities with annual turnover under £500,000. Supports causes aiding children, the elderly, disabled people, and those in distress or financial hardship across both music and non-music projects. |
| The Fore | The Fore (1204122) | 2 Dec 2026 | £45,000 | UK-wide | Unrestricted Core Costs | Offers unrestricted grants of up to £45,000 over one to three years alongside professional pro bono skills support for small UK charities and social enterprises. Applicants must register during a one-week window before being allocated an application place.Unrestricted grants aimed at making a small charity more resilient. But read their own warning first — The Fore says applications are less likely to succeed from organisations forecasting ongoing deficits where funding will not improve finances. Any bid has to lead with how the grant closes the gap, not with the gap. |
| Westhill Endowment Grants | Westhill Endowment (1104736) | 7 Dec 2026 | £20,000 | UK-wide | Quaker & Faith Core Costs | Provides grants ranging from £500 to £20,000 for religious education, interfaith activities, and faith-motivated community transformation projects. Applications follow a two-stage process starting with an online funding enquiry, with each round capped at 100 submissions.Educational projects with Christian values that help people transform their lives, which is a fair description of a Claridge House course. |
| UK Community Tree Planting Programme | International Tree Foundation (1106269) | 11 Dec 2026 | Discretionary | UK-wide | Nature & Garden | Provides grants to UK community groups and charities to plant native trees and woodlands (100 to 10,000 trees), funding up to £2.15 per tree plus £0.10 per tree annual maintenance grants for two years. |
| Wolfson Foundation – Funding for Places | Wolfson Foundation (charity 1156077) | 5 Jan 2027 | £75,000 | UK-wide | Capital & Equipment Buildings & Repairs Accessibility | Provides capital funding for new builds, refurbishments, and equipment to support organisations across education, science, heritage, and health and disability. Health and disability grants typically range from £40,000 to £75,000 for projects with a minimum cost of £50,000.It has funded a retreat centre's capital work directly — £35,000 to Torch Holiday and Retreat Centre at Hurstpierpoint, about twenty miles away, for the reception of the redeveloped centre — and it has Tandridge form, with £70,000 and £50,000 to Moor House School and College for building work. Relevant to the accessibility and building-fabric ambitions, not to bursaries or core costs. |
| Inman Charity | Inman Charity (261366) | 31 Jan 2027 | £5,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Older People Disability | Provides grants typically between £3,000 and £5,000 for core costs or specific projects in care of the elderly, disability, and general welfare. Applications are accepted strictly by email during two annual windows in January and July. |
| Stanley Smith (UK) Horticultural Trust Grants | Stanley Smith (UK) Horticultural Trust (261925) | 15 Feb 2027 | £5,000 | UK-wide | Nature & Garden | Provides grants typically up to £5,000 to support horticultural projects, public garden creation and restoration, and botanical education for public benefit.Advancement of horticulture. The garden is part of what guests come for, which makes it fundable rather than an overhead. |
| Main Grants Programme | Sir Halley Stewart Trust (208491) | 27 Feb 2027 | £60,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Mental Health | Supports innovative research and pioneering development projects focused on the prevention of human suffering within medical, social, and religious/faith fields. Grants typically range from £5,001 to £60,000 spread over one to three years (up to £30,000 per year, exceptionally up to £80,000).Funds innovation and catalytic first-of-its-kind work under a Christian and multi-faith strand — round for February 2027 meeting closed early; next round closes 27 February 2027, earlier if meeting capacity fills. Only worth an application framed as a new, evaluable programme, such as a structured bereavement-retreat pathway with an evaluation partner. A bursary top-up or a repairs ask will fail their innovation test. |
| The Astor Foundation | The Astor Foundation (225708) | 28 Feb 2027 | £1,500 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing | Provides grants typically between £250 and £1,500 to UK registered charities, primarily supporting medical research as well as disabled people, children/youth, countryside, and carers' projects. Funding is aimed at project launch costs or shortfalls, and excludes salaries and large building projects. |
| Green Hall Foundation | The Green Hall Foundation (270775) | 1 Mar 2027 | £10,000 | UK-wide | Capital & Equipment Health & Wellbeing | Provides grants between £1,000 and £10,000 to UK registered charities for special projects or equipment purchases, excluding running costs and salaries. The fund opens rounds on 1 March (all charities) and 1 September (charities under £250k income), closing immediately once 150 applications are received. |
| Grants Programme | Kelly Family Charitable Trust (1102440) | 1 Mar 2027 | Up to 5,000 GBP | UK-wide | Carers Health & Wellbeing Bursaries & Hardship | This trust supports registered charities whose activities nurture and support family life, with a strong focus on interventions that prevent family breakdown.KFCT's three stated priorities are: interventions preventing family-unit fracture, families affected by abuse/addiction, and prisoners and their families — not general carer wellbeing retreats. Only pitch this if you can tie Claridge House's respite programme concretely to preventing family breakdown for a specific family (e.g. a carer at breaking point), not as a general wellbeing offer. They favour charities with income under £500k, which Claridge House (~£235k) meets. |
| Workplace Charging Scheme | Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) | 31 Mar 2027 | £20,000 | UK-wide | Energy & Sustainability Capital & Equipment | Provides voucher-based grant funding covering up to 75% of the purchase and installation costs of electric vehicle chargepoints for charities and businesses, capped at £500 per socket for up to 40 sockets.Vouchers towards EV chargepoints. A rural centre with a car park and guests who drive to it. |
| Emerton-Christie Charity | Emerton-Christie Charity (262837) | 31 Aug 2027 | £3,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Arts, Craft & Creativity | Provides small grants typically between £1,000 and £3,000 to UK registered charities for core costs or projects in health, disability, education, arts, and the environment. Trustees meet annually in autumn to review email applications submitted by 31 August. |
| The Joseph Rank Trust | The Joseph Rank Trust (1093844) | closed for now Closed until 26 October 2026; next Trustees meeting January 2027 (no fixed deadline, first come first served) | Discretionary | UK-wide | Quaker & Faith Core Costs | Provides capital grants for church and charity property adaptations that improve community facilities, alongside three-year core running cost grants for Christian outreach. Grant amounts are discretionary, and core funding applications require matched funding.The closest structural match in the whole dataset: it funds capital property schemes at retreat centres and Quaker meetings specifically — £25,000 to Penhurst Retreat Centre in East Sussex (2019) and £25,000 to Lewes Quaker Meeting (2022), both within 30 miles. Applications go direct to the Trust's Secretary and it welcomes queries. Matching funding is expected except on capital grants; note that routine fabric maintenance and heating/insulation are excluded, but property adaptation/improvement and 3-year core costs are eligible. |
| Queen Elizabeth Trust Funding Programme | Queen Elizabeth Trust (19262026) | closed for now Funding programme formally launches in Spring 2027 | Discretionary | UK-wide | Buildings & Repairs Capital & Equipment | A UK-wide charity established to support communities in restoring and sustaining shared physical spaces and green infrastructure that foster connection across generations. The grant funding programme will formally launch in Spring 2027, with award sizes and specific guidelines to be announced.Opens in 2027 and is aimed squarely at restoring and updating existing community spaces. Diary note, not an application. |
| Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - Ann Rylands Small Donations Programme | Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust (233838) | closed for now Form temporarily closed for scheduled system upgrade; reopens week of 28 September 2026 (normally rolling) | £5,000 | UK-wide | Unrestricted Health & Wellbeing Mental Health Carers Bursaries & Hardship | Offers unrestricted grants of up to £5,000 (typically £2,000 to £3,000) to smaller UK charities providing practical and emotional support to people with physical or mental ill health, disabilities, or their carers. Eligible organisations must have an annual income between £100,000 and £2 million, and free reserves under 12 months' expenditure.Unrestricted money for small charities giving practical and emotional support to people in poor physical or mental health, and to their carers. Claridge House's offer described by somebody else. |
| GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) IMPACT Awards | The King's Fund (1126980) | closed for now Closed for 2026 (stage 1 closed 19/08/2026; stage 2 closes 05/10/2026); expected to reopen summer 2027 | £50,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Core Costs | Provides core unrestricted funding of up to £50,000 (£40,000 plus an additional £10,000 for the overall winner) alongside tailored leadership training for registered charities delivering health and wellbeing improvements in the UK. Open to independent charities operating for at least three years with annual income between £150,000 and £3 million.Income of £235k puts Claridge House inside the usual eligibility band. An award brings organisational development support as well as money. |
| Woodroffe Benton Foundation - Small Grants Programme | Woodroffe Benton Foundation (1075272) | closed for now Closed — August 2026 round closed; next round expected March 2027 | £2,500 | UK-wide | Older People Core Costs Nature & Garden | Provides one-off grants of £500 to £2,500 to small UK registered charities with annual income under £750,000 for core costs and projects supporting older people and access to nature. Funding rounds open twice annually (March and August) and close when a cap of 150 applications is reached. |
| Robert McAlpine Foundation | Robert McAlpine Foundation (226646) | closed for now Closed for 2026 (deadline was 7 August); next round expected August 2027 | £10,000 | UK-wide | Older People Core Costs | Awards grants typically between £5,000 and £10,000 to small UK charities with income under £1m supporting older people, children, youth, and medical or social research. Trustees meet annually in November to review appeals submitted by an annual August deadline. |
| Delamere Dairy Foundation Grants | Delamere Dairy Foundation (1191627) | closed for now Closed — reopens 1 January 2027 | £5,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Offers grants between £1,000 and £5,000 to charities and community organisations in England, Scotland, and Wales for project and core costs. Supported themes include the relief of sickness, financial hardship, education, youth advancement, and environmental protection. |
| Co-op Local Community Fund | Co-op | closed for now Closed for 2026 (closed 24 June 2026) — next window opens Spring 2027 | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs Unrestricted Health & Wellbeing | Partners with local charities and community organisations for a 12-month period, awarding funding generated from Co-op member shopping and voting. Priority is given to grassroots organisations with annual income under £1m.The Co-op is the third most active funder in Tandridge district with 105 published grants, and it funds this kind of work — £9,602 to East Surrey Carers Support Association for core services including premises and utilities, and two grants to Minsteracres Retreat Centre to refurbish accommodation. The award size depends on member voting at Co-op Food, 1–3 High Street, Lingfield, a mile away, so the preparation that matters is lining up Lingfield members before Spring 2027. |
| Local Community Spaces Fund (formerly Investing in Spaces and Places) | Asda Foundation (charity 1124268) | closed for now Programme renamed 'Local Community Spaces Fund'; the 2026 application window has already closed (notifications by 31 Aug 2026), so target the next window, expected to open again in 2027. | £10,000 - £20,000 | UK-wide | Capital & Equipment Buildings & Repairs Nature & Garden | A capital funding programme supporting grassroots community organisations to improve physical spaces, including building repairs, building developments, and outdoor/garden transformations.This is the current name for Asda's capital/space-improvement programme; the 'Investing in Spaces and Places' branding is outdated. No explicit requirement to route through a local store Community Champion was found on the current page, but successful applicants have their nearest store's Champion notified. Watch for the next application window opening (historically spring) before mid-2027. |
| Sir James Reckitt Charity Grants | Sir James Reckitt Charity (225356) | Rolling — trustees meet in May and November; apply at least one month in advance | £10,000 | UK-wide | Quaker & Faith Unrestricted Core Costs | Provides flexible, usually unrestricted grants to charities associated with Hull and East Yorkshire or the Society of Friends (Quakers) for core costs, capital improvements, equipment, and projects. Grants typically range from £1,000 to £10,000, though larger awards may be considered.Gives priority to purposes connected with the Society of Friends, and gives unrestricted. The closest thing on this page to a fund written for Claridge House. |
| Rest-Harrow Trust | Rest-Harrow Trust (238042) | Rolling — apply any time in writing | £1,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs Quaker & Faith Health & Wellbeing | Discretionary grant-making trust providing small micro-grants to UK registered charities across health, disability, poverty relief, and general welfare. Awards typically range from £200 to £500, with occasional grants up to £1,000.General charitable purposes, small and quick to ask. |
| Benefact Trust – Community Impact Grants | Benefact Trust (263960) | Rolling — applications reviewed throughout the year (average decision time 3 months for up to £25k, 4–6 months for larger grants) | Discretionary | UK-wide | Quaker & Faith Core Costs | Provides revenue funding for Christian charities and churches to tackle social challenges in local communities or sustain Christian ministry and outreach. Grant amounts are discretionary based on total project costs and deprivation, requiring at least 30% secured match funding.Open to Christian charities of any denomination for work that benefits the wider community. It gave Quakers in Britain £200,000, so Quaker bodies are demonstrably in scope. Applicants must already have 30% of eligible costs secured elsewhere. |
| Benefact Trust – Building Grants | Benefact Trust (263960) | Rolling — applications reviewed throughout the year (decisions within 3 months for up to £25k, 4–6 months for larger grants) | Discretionary | UK-wide | Buildings & Repairs Quaker & Faith Capital & Equipment | Capital grants for churches and Christian charities managing buildings that provide public benefit, funding essential repairs, accessibility, community use, and environmental sustainability. Award amounts are discretionary based on total project costs and need, with a requirement of 30% secured match funding.Conservation and improvement of Christian charity buildings, not only worship space — and the buildings limb does not require the building to have been built as a church. It gave Quakers in Britain £200,000, so Quaker bodies are demonstrably in scope. You must already have 30% of eligible project costs secured before applying; confirm the Quaker point by phone first. |
| Sydney Black Charitable Trust Grants | Sydney Black Charitable Trust (219855) | Rolling — postal applications accepted year-round | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs Quaker & Faith Older People | Small discretionary grants to charitable organisations, operating with an Evangelical Christian ethos to support education, relief of distress, and religious advancement. Typical awards are relatively small, often under £2,000, with applications submitted in writing by post. |
| Charitable Grants for UK Registered Charities | The SMB Trust (263814) | Rolling — apply online any time | £5,000 | UK-wide | Quaker & Faith Core Costs Energy & Sustainability | Offers grants to UK registered charities supporting Christian faith, social care, poverty relief, education, and environmental protection. Grants typically range from £1,000 to £3,000, with awards up to £5,000 considered upon special justification. |
| Hodge Foundation Grants | Hodge Foundation (The Jane Hodge Foundation, 216053) | Rolling — apply online any time | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs Health & Wellbeing Quaker & Faith | Awards grants to UK registered charities across welfare, education, medical, and religious causes, supporting projects that assist vulnerable individuals and communities. Grants typically start from £2,500 with no fixed maximum, assessed on a rolling basis. |
| Frenkel Topping Charitable Foundation - Groups and Communities | Frenkel Topping Charitable Foundation (1158613) | Rolling — apply any time | Discretionary | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Disability Bursaries & Hardship | Provides discretionary project funding to support events, activities, and equipment for groups of 10 or more individuals affected by life-changing illness, accidents, or medical conditions. Grants cover direct project costs such as aids, equipment, entry fees, and refreshments, but exclude salaries and marketing.Funds activities for groups of ten or more people who have had a life-changing illness or accident. That is a retreat, costed. |
| Allen Lane Foundation | The Allen Lane Foundation (248031) | Rolling — apply any time (Trustees meet February, June, October) | £15,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs Mental Health Older People | Provides grants up to £15,000 (average £5,000–£6,000) for project or core costs to UK charitable groups working with marginalised people, including older people and those with mental health challenges. Organisations must have an annual income under £100,000 for local work or under £250,000 for national work.Deliberately funds work others find unfashionable, including mental ill health and isolation. Small organisations only, which suits. |
| Truemark Trust | The Truelight Trust (1209622) / Truemark Trust (265855) | Rolling — apply any time | £10,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs Mental Health | Provides grants typically between £2,000 and £10,000 to small local charities working to relieve social distress and disadvantage. Preference is given to neighbourhood-based community projects and innovative work with less popular groups.Prefers neighbourhood-based projects and innovatory work with less popular groups. |
| Douglas Arter Foundation | The Douglas Arter Foundation (201794) | Rolling — applications reviewed quarterly (March, June, September, December) | £2,500 | UK-wide | Disability Mental Health | Provides one-off project grants typically ranging from £250 to £2,500 to UK registered charities supporting individuals of all ages with physical or mental disabilities. Excludes core costs, salaries, research, and major development projects. |
| The February Foundation | The February Foundation (1113064) | Rolling — applications reviewed monthly | £5,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing | Provides grants to UK registered charities for core, project, or capital costs across relief of need, healthcare, education, and the arts. Median awards are around £5,000. |
| The Wyseliot Rose Charitable Trust | The Wyseliot Rose Charitable Trust (257219) | Rolling — applications by post only | £5,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing | Provides grants between £3,000 and £5,000 to UK charities supporting health, the arts, and the relief of elderly or disadvantaged individuals. The trust has no website and accepts applications in writing only.Looks for charities of national significance. Claridge House draws guests from across the country, which is the argument to make. |
| Foux Foundation | Foux Foundation (1177520) | Rolling — apply online any time | Discretionary | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Core Costs | Offers discretionary grants to UK registered charities with annual income under £3m working in health, education, youth opportunity, and poverty relief. Funds both project and operational/core costs via an online application form. |
| Dischma Charitable Trust | Dischma Charitable Trust (1077501) | Rolling — applications reviewed bi-annually | £3,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Older People | Provides grants typically between £500 and £3,000 to UK registered charities across health, disability, older people, and education. Does not have a website; written applications are reviewed bi-annually by trustees via Rathbones. |
| The Ancaster Trust | The Ancaster Trust (270822) | Rolling — apply any time in writing | £500 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing | Provides micro-grants to UK registered charities working in health, social welfare, disability, and community action. Grants typically range from £100 to £500 and are awarded on a rolling basis via postal application. |
| Andor Charitable Trust | Andor Charitable Trust (1083572) | Rolling — apply any time in writing | £5,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Older People Disability | Supports UK registered charities assisting older people, disabled individuals, healthcare, poverty relief, and the arts. Grants generally range from £1,000 to £5,000 on a rolling basis via written or email application. |
| Sterry Family Foundation | Sterry Family Foundation (1143953) | Rolling — apply any time in writing | £3,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Arts, Craft & Creativity | Provides small grants to UK charities and African initiatives supporting health, relief of sickness, arts and culture, education, and amateur sport. Grants typically range from £2,000 to £3,000, awarded on a rolling basis. |
| The Ward Blenkinsop Trust | The Ward Blenkinsop Trust (265449) | Rolling — apply any time in writing | Discretionary | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Arts, Craft & Creativity | Offers discretionary grants to registered charities and voluntary organisations across England and Wales for health, education, arts, and general charitable purposes. Grants are made on a rolling basis at the discretion of the trustees. |
| Marsh Charitable Trust Grants Programme | Marsh Charitable Trust (284470) | Rolling — apply any time by post (grants committee meets monthly) | £2,000 | UK-wide | Health & Wellbeing Arts, Craft & Creativity Nature & Garden | Provides unrestricted core funding of £300 to £2,000 to small UK registered charities for running costs, volunteer expenses, and maintenance. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis by post, with successful new applicants typically starting at the lower end of the scale. |
| Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust | The Anton Jurgens Charitable Trust (259885) | Rolling — applications considered at May and November committee meetings | £10,000 | UK-wide | Disability Core Costs | Provides grants of up to £10,000 to UK-registered charities with annual income under £500,000 supporting socially disadvantaged people or people with disabilities. Applications are submitted online on a rolling basis and assessed twice a year. |
| Frognal Trust | Frognal Trust (244444) | Rolling — apply any time by post | £3,500 | UK-wide | Older People Disability | Provides modest discretionary grants, typically between £200 and £3,500, to UK charities supporting older people, people with disabilities, youth, and medical or environmental causes. The trust has no public website and accepts written postal applications on a rolling basis. |
| The Francis Winham Foundation | The Francis Winham Foundation (278092) | Rolling — apply any time in writing | £10,000 | UK-wide | Older People | Awards grants typically between £5,000 and £10,000 to registered charities in England assisting older people to improve their quality of life. The foundation has no public website and considers written postal applications on a rolling basis. |
| Garfield Weston Foundation - Regular Grants | Garfield Weston Foundation (230260) | Rolling — apply any time; decisions take 4–6 months | £100,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs Capital & Equipment Quaker & Faith | Supports UK registered charities across welfare, community, health, faith, youth, and environment with grants up to £100,000 for operating/core costs, capital projects, or specific activities. GWF typically funds 10–20% of total project or organisational costs.Funds faith, health and community, and will consider both buildings and unrestricted costs. The most consistent Quaker funder in the published grants data — 11 Quaker grants since 2017; Marazion Quaker Meeting got £15,000 in 2021 for "essential building repairs and installation of sustainable heating system", the repair-plus-energy package Claridge House needs, already funded once. |
| National Lottery Awards for All - England | The National Lottery Community Fund | Rolling — apply any time; decisions take about 16 weeks | £20,000 | England | Core Costs Health & Wellbeing Capital & Equipment Bursaries & Hardship | Provides grants of £300 to £20,000 for up to two years to voluntary and community groups in England for projects that bring people together, improve local spaces, or support communities facing challenges. Funding can support new activities, adapt existing work, or cover equipment and running costs.The most winnable £20,000 on this page. No deadline, decisions in around 16 weeks. |
| Coral Samuel Charitable Trust Grants | Coral Samuel Charitable Trust (239677) | Rolling — apply any time in writing | £5,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs Arts, Craft & Creativity | Discretionary grant-making trust providing small grants, typically between £1,000 and £5,000, to UK registered charities. Focus areas include education, social welfare, culture and arts, and medical causes. |
| Dixie Rose Findlay Charitable Trust Grants | Dixie Rose Findlay Charitable Trust (251661) | Rolling — apply via Ludlow Trust Funding Enquiry Gateway or in writing | £5,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Discretionary grant-making trust administered by Ludlow Trust Company, providing grants typically between £1,000 and £5,000 to UK registered charities. Historical funding preferences include hospices, hospitals, health services, and visual impairment charities. |
| Fitton Trust | Fitton Trust (208758) | Rolling — trustees meet three times a year (typically April, August, and December) | £1,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Provides discretionary micro-grants typically between £150 and £350 (occasionally up to £1,000) to UK registered charities and voluntary bodies. Funding supports general charitable purposes with an emphasis on the sick, elderly, and disadvantaged. |
| Hadley Trust | The Hadley Trust (1064823) | Rolling — apply any time directly to the trust | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs | Provides discretionary funding (historically averaging around £45,000) to UK registered charities that create opportunities for disadvantaged people, focusing on social welfare and poverty relief. The trust has no website and aims to build long-term relationships with partner organisations. |
| Joseph Strong Frazer Trust | The Joseph Strong Frazer Trust (235311) | Rolling — trustees meet twice yearly | £2,500 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Provides small discretionary grants typically between £2,000 and £2,500 to registered charities in England and Wales across a broad range of charitable purposes. Trustees meet twice a year to review applications, with no formal deadlines or public website. |
| Lambert Charitable Trust | The Lambert Charitable Trust (257803) | rolling | £1,000-£15,000 (most awards £1,000-£2,000) | UK-wide | Core Costs Older People Disability | UK trust funding medicine, social care, education, disability and elderly-care charities, giving priority to Greater London and also supporting a number of Jewish community organisations, but not restricted to either.Open to applications at any time: contact the trust via its administrator Mercer & Hole (01727 869141) at any time. Greater London gets priority so a Surrey application competes from a weaker position, and the modest £1k-£2k typical award suits a bursaries or small-repairs ask better than core costs. |
| Lord Barnby's Charitable Foundation | The Lord Barnby's Foundation (251016) | Rolling — applications considered quarterly by trustees | £12,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Provides grants typically between £500 and £12,000 (averaging £2,000 to £3,000) to UK registered charities across England and Wales for health, disability, elderly welfare, and heritage conservation. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis by post or email with recent accounts. |
| Mrs F B Laurence's Charitable Trust | Mrs F B Laurence's Charitable Trust (296548) | Rolling — apply any time in writing | £6,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Offers small grants typically between £1,000 and £2,000 (up to £6,000) to small UK registered charities working in social welfare, health, disability, and older people. Applications must be submitted in writing with latest accounts. |
| P F Charitable Trust | P F Charitable Trust (220124) | Rolling — apply any time in writing | £20,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs Health & Wellbeing Older People | Supports a broad range of UK charitable activities, including health, relief of need due to age or disability, education, and community welfare, with most grants £20,000 or under. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis in writing. |
| RJ and AH Daniels Charitable Trust | RJ and AH Daniels Charitable Trust (1050703) | Rolling — apply any time in writing | £2,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Awards small grants, typically around £1,000 to £2,000, to UK registered charities with preferences for health and wellbeing, disability, older people, and hospices. Written applications are reviewed periodically by trustees. |
| Ruth and Stuart Lipton Charitable Trust | Ruth and Stuart Lipton Charitable Trust (266741) | Rolling — apply any time in writing | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs | Provides discretionary grants to registered charities across the UK for general charitable purposes at the trustees' discretion. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis in writing. |
| Stuart Halbert Foundation Grants | Stuart Halbert Foundation (1137247) | Rolling — applications reviewed regularly | Discretionary | UK-wide | Core Costs | Provides discretionary grants to registered charities and organisations supporting people in need, animal welfare, armed forces, and local communities. Applications must be submitted on paper by post. |
| The Hedley Denton Charitable Trust Grants | The Hedley Denton Charitable Trust (1060725) | Rolling — trustees meet bi-annually | £2,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Awards small grants typically between £500 and £2,000 to charities working in medical care, youth development, disability support, the arts, and disadvantaged assistance. Priority is given to organisations in the North of England, though funding further afield is permitted. |
| The Lennox Hannay Charitable Trust Grants | The Lennox Hannay Charitable Trust (1080198) | Rolling — applications reviewed twice a year | £50,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Provides grants to UK registered charities supporting health, disability, relief of hardship, education, and community development. Awards typically range from £1,000 to £3,000, with occasional larger grants up to £50,000. |
| Blyth Watson Charitable Trust Grants | Blyth Watson Charitable Trust (1071390) | Rolling — trustees meet twice a year (typically July and December) | £5,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Awards one-off grants, typically between £1,000 and £5,000, to UK-registered charities working in humanitarian causes to relieve suffering and assist disadvantaged people. Trustees favor smaller local charities, with exceptional awards up to £15,000. |
| E C Sosnow Charitable Trust Grants | E C Sosnow Charitable Trust (273578) | Rolling — applications reviewed periodically | £5,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Provides donations generally between £1,500 and £5,000 (occasionally up to £10,000) to UK-registered charities. Supports healthcare, education, emergency relief, underprivileged populations, and the arts. |
| Community Champions | Persimmon Homes (Persimmon Charitable Foundation, 1163608) | Rolling — applications reviewed quarterly by regional offices | £6,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Donates up to £6,000 per quarter from each of Persimmon's 30 regional offices to local charities, community organisations, and sports clubs. Applications are submitted through an online form and assessed locally. |
| Rhododendron Trust | The Rhododendron Trust (267192) | Rolling by email — trustees meet annually in March to make decisions | £2,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs Arts, Craft & Creativity | Provides small grants typically between £1,000 and £2,000 to UK registered charities working in social welfare, disability, mental health, carers' breaks, and the arts. Applications are submitted year-round by email to category-specific addresses. |
| Ian Askew Charitable Trust | The Ian Askew Charitable Trust (264515) | Rolling — applications considered throughout the year | £3,000 | UK-wide | Core Costs | Awards grants typically between £500 and £3,000 to charitable organisations, with a strong preference for causes operating in Sussex and the South East. The trust has no website and accepts written proposals via its administrators.Prefers Sussex. Claridge House is about a mile and a half from the county line, which is worth a sentence in a covering letter. |
| Bernard Sunley Foundation | Bernard Sunley Foundation (1109099) | Rolling — applications accepted year-round (small grants decided monthly; medium and large in March, July, November) | Discretionary | UK-wide | Capital & Equipment Buildings & Repairs | Provides capital grants across three tiers—Small (up to £5,000), Medium (up to £20,000), and Large (£25,000+)—for building, refurbishment, and equipment projects in community, health, education, and social welfare. Eligible projects must have total capital costs between £10,000 and £5 million. |
| Energy Resilience Fund | Social Investment Business (1117185) / Architectural Heritage Fund (266940) | Rolling — apply online; blended 40% grant and 60% loan | £250,000 | England | Energy & Sustainability Capital & Equipment Buildings & Repairs | Provides blended finance packages between £25,000 and £250,000 (comprising a 40% grant and a 60% loan at 8.5% fixed interest) to install energy efficiency measures or renewable energy generation on buildings and land. Open to English charities and social enterprises with at least £100,000 in annual turnover.Grant and loan mixed, for energy-saving measures and efficient equipment. Run by the Architectural Heritage Fund, so an older building is a help rather than a complication. |
| Big Energy Saving Loans | Big Issue Invest | Rolling — apply any time | £200,000 | England | Energy & Sustainability | Provides unsecured loan finance between £20,000 and £200,000 for charities and social enterprises in England to install renewable energy equipment and improve building energy efficiency.A loan rather than a grant, but one repaid out of the saving. Worth modelling against the heating bill for a large old house. |
| Landfill Communities Fund | HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) | Rolling — depends on individual distributive operator | Discretionary | England | Buildings & Repairs Capital & Equipment | A government tax-credit scheme regulated by ENTRUST that channels landfill operator contributions into community, environmental, and heritage projects near licensed landfill sites. Grants are distributed by individual approved environmental bodies rather than ENTRUST directly.The mechanism behind the Biffa row. Eligibility is by distance from a qualifying site — SUEZ and Veolia have both been tested against RH7 6QH on their own checkers and return a flat no, and FCC's nearest eligible site is 22.8 miles against a 10-mile rule. Biffa is the only operator that reaches this postcode. |
| Biffa Award Main Grants Scheme – Community Buildings | Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (Biffa Award) (207238) | Rolling — EOIs accepted any time (board meets quarterly) | £75,000 | England | Buildings & Repairs Capital & Equipment | Capital grants between £10,000 and £75,000 to improve community buildings such as village halls and community centres, for projects with total costs up to £200,000. Requires proximity to Biffa operations, at least 104 days of annual public access, and a 10% third-party contribution.The nearest Biffa depot shares Claridge House's postcode district — Newchapel, 2.84 miles — so eligibility is met twice over on Biffa's own checker, and again on the separate 10-mile licensed-landfill test. This is the largest place-based pot open to this site and it is invisible to national databases, because eligibility is computed from a private site register. Settle three things by phone before an EOI: the exclusion list names "activity centres" and "residential care facilities", energy-saving-only projects are not funded, and worship buildings need evidence of wider community use. Also required: 104 days of public access a year, a 10% third-party contribution, and planning permission already granted. |
| idverde Community Investment Fund (with Crowdfunding) | idverde UK | Rolling — apply via Spacehive crowdfunding | £1,000 | UK-wide | Nature & Garden | Offers top-up pledges of up to £1,000 for community-led projects on Spacehive that improve local green spaces, enhance biodiversity, or support wellbeing in areas where idverde operates contracts. |
| Alpkit Foundation Grants | Alpkit Foundation (1162585) | Rolling — applications reviewed every two months | £500 | UK-wide | Nature & Garden Health & Wellbeing | Provides small grants typically between £50 and £500 to grassroots charities and community groups to overcome barriers to outdoor access, outdoor wellbeing, and conservation. |
| The National Lottery Community Fund – Reaching Communities England | The National Lottery Community Fund | Rolling — apply any time (decision turnaround approx 40 weeks) | Discretionary | England | Mental Health Carers Health & Wellbeing Core Costs Buildings & Repairs | Provides grants from £20,001 up to multi-million pound awards for up to five years to support community-led projects that improve health, wellbeing, and social connection across England. Funds revenue, capital, staffing, and organizational development.This is the funder that most often pays for what Claridge House does. Recharge – Workshops & Retreats CIC received £96,189 for "Retreats for Carers"; Chabad Retreat Centre received £20,000 to replace forty single-glazed windows and £19,960 for a project titled "Restoring Respite"; Minsteracres re-roofed its respite centre on £10,000; Hertford and Hitchin Area Quaker Meeting got £4,920 for a community garden. Use Awards for All, already listed on this page, for a single carers'-break or bursary programme, and Reaching Communities for a multi-year wellbeing programme with staff costs in it. |
| Sport England – Movement Fund | Sport England | Rolling — apply at least 12 weeks before project start (decisions in 6–8 weeks) | £15,000 | England | Health & Wellbeing Mental Health Older People Disability | Offers grants and crowdfunding pledges from £300 to £15,000 for projects lasting up to 12 months that encourage physical activity and tackle inequalities. Priority is given to projects engaging inactive people and groups facing barriers to participation.An unexpected route that is well evidenced: Seachange Retreats received £15,000 for "surfing, yoga & wellbeing... 4 x 2 day retreats" for adults living with or recovering from cancer and their families and carers; YMCA North Staffordshire got £8,700 for "mindfulness movement, yoga, meditation". Claridge House's yoga and movement programme is fundable here if it is framed around a named inactive or health-affected group rather than as general wellbeing. |
| The Clothworkers' Foundation – Open Grants Programme | The Clothworkers' Foundation (charity 274100) | Rolling — eligibility quiz required before accessing online application | £15,000 | UK-wide | Capital & Equipment Buildings & Repairs Accessibility Energy & Sustainability Digital & IT | Provides capital grants to UK registered charities and non-profits, offering Small Grants up to £15,000 and Large Grants over £15,000 for buildings, equipment, vehicles, and digital infrastructure. Applicants must demonstrate that at least 50% of service users benefiting are from defined marginalised groups.It has both a Tandridge track record and an energy-efficiency habit: £15,000 to Limpsfield Grange School for internal refurbishment, £15,000 to Orpheus Trust for a wheelchair-accessible vehicle, and £7,500 to the Springboard Project specifically to purchase solar panels. It has also funded a Quaker body directly, £24,150 to Quaker Social Action. Settle one question before spending time on it: applicants must show at least 50% of beneficiaries are in a disadvantaged or marginalised group. |
| National Lottery Heritage Grants £10,000 to £250,000 | The National Lottery Heritage Fund | Rolling — applications accepted year-round with decisions in around 8 weeks | £250,000 | UK-wide | Buildings & Repairs Capital & Equipment Nature & Garden Quaker & Faith | Funds projects connecting people and communities to UK heritage, including historic buildings, landscapes, and nature conservation. Grants range from £10,000 to £250,000 on a rolling basis.It funds Quaker and dissenting-tradition heritage at scale — Ringwood Meeting House Association received £513,000 for a conservation and heritage project, and Stebbing Friends Meeting House £46,900 — and it funded Minsteracres Retreat Centre £9,900 for a heritage woodland trail, which is the model for interpreting the garden and grounds. Unlike the National Churches Trust, it imposes no test that the building was originally built for worship. |
| Association for Promoting Retreats – Bursary Fund | Association for Promoting Retreats (charity 222458) | Rolling — apply at least 10 days before retreat, decision within one week | £150 | UK-wide | Bursaries & Hardship Health & Wellbeing | Covers up to 50% of an individual's retreat costs, capped at £150 per person, for guests facing financial hardship. Applications must be submitted by member retreat houses on behalf of guests, up to five applicants per house per financial year.The only sector-specific bursary money that exists, and the mechanics suit Claridge House exactly: the retreat house applies on behalf of the guest, there are no strict means criteria, and houses are trusted to assess need. Two actions: establish whether Claridge House is already an APR member house and join if not, then use it as a standing top-up that stretches the bursary fund rather than as a grant to chase. Note the APR and the Retreat Association are different bodies — only the APR has the bursary fund. |
| Wickes Community Programme | Wickes | Rolling online application | Discretionary | UK-wide | Buildings & Repairs Capital & Equipment Energy & Sustainability | Donates building materials, paint, and timber products in kind to support local charities and community groups maintaining or renovating spaces. Donations are curated and collected from a local Wickes store.Branch proximity genuinely matters here because collection from store is required, and it is satisfied: the Felbridge branch on London Road, East Grinstead, is four to five miles away. Materials rather than money, so it is best used to reduce the cash cost of a repair or insulation project that a grant is already part-funding. |
| The Francis W Reckitt Arts Trust | The Francis W Reckitt Arts Trust (charity 230928) | No fixed deadline — partnership approach via reckittarts.org | Discretionary | UK-wide | Arts, Craft & Creativity Bursaries & Hardship Health & Wellbeing | Subsidises residential board and accommodation for professional artists, writers, and composers needing convalescence, rest, or quiet creative working time. Most funding is channeled through partner organisations and residencies such as Hawkwood College.Its whole operating model is subsidising board and lodging at a partner retreat venue, which is what Claridge House already sells — so a bursary partnership for artists and writers mirrors what the Trust does rather than asking it to do something new. Be realistic: it has consolidated its giving into Hawkwood College, where it is now headquartered, and warns that approaches unlikely to succeed will not necessarily get a reply. This is a relationship pitch, not an application. Not to be confused with the Sir James Reckitt Charity already on this page. |
| The Hobson Charity - Capital Grants | The Hobson Charity (charity 326839) | Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. | £500 - £100,000 | England | Capital & Equipment Buildings & Repairs Older People Disability | The Hobson Charity provides grants to charities in England and Wales specifically for capital and equipment projects, rather than core operational costs. They focus on improving the quality of life for the young, disadvantaged, deprived, disabled, or elderly.As Claridge House serves older people and those needing mental health respite, apply here for specific capital items or building repairs. Note trustees are currently prioritising cost-of-living/frontline urgent requests; other capital-item requests are considered monthly. They usually settle grants upon receipt of a paid invoice, not upfront. |
| The Percy Bilton Charity - Capital Grants | The Percy Bilton Charity (charity 1094720) | Applications are reviewed at regular board meetings (often monthly for small grants). | Up to £750 (Small) or £2,000 - £5,000 (Large) | UK-wide | Capital & Equipment Buildings & Repairs Older People Mental Health Disability | The Percy Bilton Charity provides capital funding for furniture, equipment, and building refurbishment projects. They specifically target organisations assisting older people, people with disabilities, and individuals with mental health problems.This is a strong match for Claridge House due to your focus on older people and mental health respite. Apply for specific furniture, accessibility adaptations, or refurbishment projects that can be fully funded by their grant, as they prefer to fund complete project elements. |
| Connecting Communities Grants | Morrisons Foundation (charity 1160224) | Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. | Up to £20,000 | England | Capital & Equipment Buildings & Repairs Accessibility | The Morrisons Foundation's Connecting Communities grant supports capital improvement projects for charities that maintain shared community spaces. Eligible projects include renovations, accessibility improvements, and fixed equipment installations.As a charity maintaining an older building serving as a community retreat, position the application around preserving/improving the space for vulnerable groups rather than its Quaker identity. IMPORTANT: Morrisons Foundation eligibility criteria explicitly exclude organisations 'promoting political or religious messages' and require the applicant to own or hold a 3+ year lease on the property, have filed at least one set of accounts, and not have received Morrisons Foundation funding in the past two years. Emphasise Claridge House's welfare/wellbeing purpose (not evangelism) to reduce this risk, but flag it before applying. |
| The Anchor Foundation | The Anchor Foundation (charity 1082485) | Deadlines are typically 31 January and 31 July each year. | 500 to 12,000 GBP | UK-wide | Quaker & Faith Health & Wellbeing Arts, Craft & Creativity Core Costs | Supports Christian charities concerned with social inclusion, with a specific interest in ministries of healing and the arts. Grants are typically up to £12,000, and they have historically supported Christian bodies running religious retreats.Highlight how Claridge House offers healing and rest, and that it is a registered charity (they explicitly exclude CICs). The claim that they have 'historically supported Christian bodies running religious retreats' could not be independently confirmed from their public materials and should not be asserted as fact in the application; instead lead with your social-inclusion/bursary angle for those on low incomes, which is on more solid ground. |
| The Archer Trust | The Archer Trust (charity 1033534) | Applications accepted by post/form on a rolling basis; the Trust makes roughly 200 grants a year, so review is more frequent than the two fixed meetings originally claimed — treat 'March and September' as unconfirmed rather than fact. | 1,000 to 5,000 GBP | UK-wide | Quaker & Faith Bursaries & Hardship Health & Wellbeing | A Christian grant-making charity that supports small UK registered charities aiding disadvantaged or marginalised people. They favour charities operating in areas of need that make good use of volunteers.Pitch for support towards your bursary scheme to help people on low incomes or carers experiencing hardship access the respite programmes. Make sure to clearly mention how volunteers are integrated into the life and running of the house. |
| The Gibbs Trust | The Gibbs Trust (charity 207997) | Rolling; Trustees meet three times a year (post-Christmas, Easter, late summer). | Up to 3,000 GBP | UK-wide | Quaker & Faith Arts, Craft & Creativity Health & Wellbeing | A family-run grant-making charity rooted in the Methodist Church that supports wider Christian causes, as well as creative arts, education, and social concern initiatives.This trust's grantmaking is concentrated on Methodist Church projects (mainly Bristol/Wales) plus creative-arts and international-concern causes; it is not Quaker-linked, so treat as a marginal, not strong, match. If applying, lead with the creative-arts/wellbeing angle rather than a faith-affinity pitch, and expect grants well under £3,000. |